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From the big teaching hospitals to care homes, mental health units and the community, pick up shifts that fit your life. All booked from the Novello app, with your pay confirmed before you accept.
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Nursing in London
Work that fits around your life
One app to find shifts across the capital, see your pay and stay compliant, backed by a team that knows London.
Shifts across the capital
Pick up work near you, from the central teaching hospitals to care and community settings across all 32 boroughs.
Know your pay up front
See your confirmed rate before you accept a shift. No surprises, no chasing.
Compliance made simple
We keep your documents and checks in one place, so you are ready for your next shift.
The capital we cover
Every kind of nursing, right across London
London holds the densest concentration of healthcare anywhere in the UK, and the work runs far wider than any single hospital.
The capital has more NHS trusts and hospitals than anywhere in the country. Barts Health is the largest NHS trust in England, running The Royal London, St Bartholomew’s, Whipps Cross and Newham. Alongside it sit the big teaching trusts, Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare, UCLH and St George’s, and all four of London’s adult major trauma centres: King’s, The Royal London, St George’s and St Mary’s.
There is far more beyond the wards. Mental health runs across trusts like South London and Maudsley, East London and Central and North West London, with historic units including the Maudsley and Bethlem Royal. Add community and district nursing in every borough, the UK’s densest private hospital sector around Harley Street, and prisons including Wandsworth, Pentonville and Belmarsh, and the range of work is genuinely vast. Whatever your specialism, there is regular work near you.
Where we work
From the centre to the suburbs
We place nurses, ODPs and care staff in settings right across Greater London, not just the big teaching hospitals.
Hospitals and theatres
NHS and private hospitals across the capital, from the major teaching and trauma centres to London’s dense independent sector.
Care and community
Nursing and residential homes, plus community and district nursing in people’s own homes, across all 32 boroughs.
Mental health and secure
Inpatient and secure mental health services and the capital’s prisons, for nurses who want varied, autonomous work.
We work with candidates and clients across every London borough, from Westminster, Camden and Islington to Croydon, Newham, Ealing and beyond.
Work just outside the capital? We also cover the South East and the East of England.
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See where the work is across London
Search the map to find the hospitals, trusts and care settings we staff near you, right across the capital.
Specialisms in London
Your specialism, close to home
Whatever you specialise in, London has genuine demand. Here is where the work is.
- Nursing & care homes
- Mental health
- Prison nursing
- Critical care
- Theatres
Nursing & care homes
London has a younger population than the rest of England, with far fewer over-65s, yet regulators have found the capital has the fewest care home beds per head of any English region. That mismatch keeps demand high. For RGNs, RMNs and experienced care staff, there is steady work in nursing and residential homes across the boroughs.
Mental health
London’s mental health services are among the largest and best known in the country. Trusts including South London and Maudsley, East London and Central and North West London run inpatient, secure and community care across the capital, with historic units like the Maudsley and Bethlem Royal. Mental health is a growing area of work for us, across every setting.
Prison nursing
London’s secure estate includes some of the best known prisons in the country, from Wandsworth, one of the largest in the UK, to Pentonville, Brixton, Wormwood Scrubs and the high-security Belmarsh. Prison nursing is autonomous, varied work, and we help you get the enhanced clearance sorted before you start.
Critical care
London holds all four of the capital’s adult major trauma centres, at King’s College Hospital, The Royal London, St George’s and St Mary’s, along with world-leading specialist and tertiary services. For ITU and HDU nurses who are confident with the most unstable patients, high-acuity critical care shifts come up regularly right across the city.
Theatres
Alongside its NHS lists, London has the UK’s densest private hospital sector, centred on the Harley Street district and the big independent hospitals. For scrub, anaesthetic and recovery nurses, ODPs and surgical first assistants, that means a huge volume of theatre work across both the NHS and independent hospitals.
Care & support work in London
Care and support work in London
Most care in London is delivered by care assistants and support workers rather than registered nurses. It is the biggest social care market in England — around 216,000 people work in adult social care across the capital — and it carries the highest care vacancy rate of any English region, so there is always work going. The roles span elderly care homes, supported living and specialist neuro-rehabilitation, right across the 32 boroughs.
- Care assistant
- Support worker
- Dementia care
- Brain injury
Care assistant
London has among the fewest care-home beds per older person of any English region, so a great deal of care is delivered in people’s own homes as well as in residential and nursing homes. Demand for care assistants is heaviest in the outer, eastern boroughs: in Havering and Bromley more than a fifth of residents are aged 60 or over, well above the London average. Care assistants are the backbone of this work, supporting older people with everyday living, personal care and companionship.
Support worker
Alongside its care homes, London runs one of the country’s largest supported-living sectors, and the capital’s councils are moving people out of hospital and residential care into homes of their own under the national Building the Right Support programme. That drives steady demand for support workers who help the people they support live as independently as possible, across all 32 boroughs and the City.
Dementia care
Dementia diagnosis in London is something of a postcode lottery: while the capital’s overall diagnosis rate is among the highest in England, many boroughs still fall short of the NHS national target of diagnosing two-thirds of people. As the population ages, dementia is one of the biggest drivers of demand in London’s care homes, and it is some of the most valued work in the sector, supporting residents to live well day to day.
Brain injury
London has a genuine specialist neuro cluster — the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney, one of the country’s oldest neuro-disability hospitals; the regional hyper-acute rehabilitation unit at Northwick Park, which takes the most complex brain-injury referrals from across London and the surrounding counties; and Homerton’s regional neurological rehabilitation unit in east London. Rehabilitation support workers here help the people they support rebuild skills and independence after a brain or spinal injury, work closely related to the complex-care roles that involve tracheostomy and other clinical support.
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London nursing shifts, answered
Which parts of London does Novello cover?
We place nurses, ODPs and care staff across all 32 London boroughs and the City of London, from the central teaching hospitals to care homes, mental health units and community settings right across the capital.
What kinds of nursing shifts are available in London?
London has the densest mix of healthcare in the UK. You can pick up work in NHS and private hospitals, nursing and residential care homes, inpatient and secure mental health services, community and district nursing, and the capital's prisons. We place RGNs, RMNs, ODPs and experienced care staff.
How quickly can I start working shifts in London?
Registration takes minutes in the Novello app. Once your compliance checks and documents are complete, you can see and book available London shifts, with your pay confirmed before you accept.
Do you offer mental health and prison nursing in London?
Yes. London has some of the largest mental health services and best known prisons in the country, so both are regular areas of work for us. For secure settings we help you get the enhanced clearance sorted before you start.
I need to staff a shift in London. Can Novello help?
Yes. Whether you run a care home, a hospital ward or a secure setting, we can supply compliant local nurses, ODPs and care staff, from a single last-minute shift to an ongoing rota. Talk to our team to get started.
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